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584 KIONOECIA PQLYANDRIA. 



The acorns are a good food to fatten fwine ana 

 turkies ; and, after the fevere winter of the year 

 1709, the poor people in France were miferably 

 conftrain'd to eat them themfclves. 

 :., , , ^ There are, however, acorns produced from another 

 ipecies of oak, which are eaten to this day iri 

 i^'pam and Greece, with as much pleafure as chef- 

 , .; r. nuts, v/ithouL the dreadful compulfion of hun- 

 ger ^ agreeably to what Ox'/'ii has delivered of 

 tlie Golden Age : 



Contentiq ; cibls nullo eogcnte creatis, _ 



• -. Arbuteos foetus, montanaq ; fraga legebant, 



CornaLj ; & in duris hxrentia mora rubetis, 

 • ■ Et qu:t deciderant patuh Jovis arbore glandes. 



•• . i .: ,. ,, Ovid, Met. Lib. I, "o. 103. 



FAGUS- Gen. pi. 1072. 

 ■ ", ". MASC. Cal. 5-fidus, campanulatus. Cor. o. Stam. 



FEM. CcJ. 4-dentatus. Cor. o. Styli 3. Capfula 

 ' (Calyx ciJilea) muricata, 4-valvis. Sem. 2. 



vaiica i. FAGUS foliis ovatis obfolete ferratis. Sp. pi. 1416. 

 {Ger- em. 1444-) 

 Feac h- T ree. AngUs. 



In woods and gentlemen's plantations frequent, 

 ■ * whether indigenous or not is doubtful. T? .V. 



This tree grows very large, and fpreads wide its 

 branches, affording a grateful fljade. The bark 



